1st Day: Innsbruck – Munich (165 km)
Innsbruck is crossed by the river Inn, because of this
its name comes from “Inn” and “Brücke” and
means Bridge on Inn. A guided visit
of the historic center, a jewel of rare beauty, rich of designs of wrought
iron, lodgings, picturesque angles and the famous “golden roof”, called also
the “golden loggia” or in German “GoldenesSachl”. The imperator Maximilian I
constructed this small late-gothic roof of a big artistic value in the old
residence of the archduke Federico IV, in occasion of his wedding. It served to
placate the voices that gave the imperator for penniless, which gives loggia
during public manifestations and tours. The balcony is 16 m large and the roof
3.7 m, and is covered by 2.657 golden copper flake roof tiles. Under the roof
board you can see many animal pictures. The parapet is rich frescoed. Actually
the relief slabs are the copies. The originals were took out in the XX century,
6 of them are exposed in the Museum Goldenes Dachl.
In the
evening an arrival at Munich, accommodation in a hotel, dinner and overnight.
2nd Day: Munich
Breakfast
and the entire day dedicated to a guided visit of the splendid capital city of
Bavaria, with a break in a restaurant for lunch. Along the city streets of
Munich which are preserving the environment from one time, you can meet the
main square Marienplatz, where is
rising the neo gothic Municipality Hall
with the famous carillon that every
year recalls the attention of the visitors with one original mechanic
spectacle; the Frauenkirche, the
unmistakable emblem of the city, the baroque Castle of Nymohenburg, summer residence of the Bavarian kings with its waste
park surrounded by many sources of water. Dinner and overnight. Viktualienmarkt is the biggest market of fruits and vegetables of Munich. It is from
the 1807, it was once a simple citizens’ market, today is developed on a
totality of 22.000 square meters surface, with 140 stalls that offer flowers
and plants, fruits, vegetables, exotic fruits, game and poultry, eggs, butter,
honey, fish meat and salami and it is a theater of so many traditional and
popular manifestations.
3rd Day: excursion at the Bavarian
Castles (280 km)
Breakfast
and a departure for the guided visit of entire day at the Castles of King
Ludwig and the village Füssen , with a break for the lunch. During
the way it is noticed the charm of this wonderful region, rich of the green
intense forest and mountain torques blue lakes. The historic center of Füssen enchants with its romantic
environment thanks to the old bourgeois houses, to the church Rococo’ and to
the picturesque angles with the typical coffee shops. The excursion proceeds
with the visit of the Hihenschwangau
Castle which, because
it hasn’t been built by the Bavarian Sovran, belongs to the castles of the King
Ludwig, who passes here one good part of his youth and always here has welcomed
the friend Richard Wegner.
The
discovery of the castles continues with the visit of the spectacular Castle of Neuschwanstein, in neo
romantic style, known in the world like the fairy castle.
Walt Disney took it for a model to design the castles of some of the
most famous animated cartoons and also is present in all the Disney parks in
the world. We will admire the Hall of the Throne, with its imposing
candlestick and painting, the Royal Living room, which has a waste salon and a
hall called “swans’ angle”, an emblem of the Ludwig family.
The Linderhof Castle completes the trilogy
of the castles. It is a small jewel in baroque style with a fabulous garden
rich of statues, fountains and the “cave of Venus”.
Technique
curiosities: here Ludwig II really lived. Because of this,
for his era, it was an advance guard castle from the technological point of
view with an electric energy, running water in all the bathrooms, a heating system
and one boiler for the kitchen.
Return
to Munich, dinner in a beer shop with a typical menu and Bavarian specialties.
Overnight.
4th
Day: Munich – Return
Breakfast,
after that a goodbye walk to Bavaria, departure for the return at home.